Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

It’s often just enough to be with someone. I don’t need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You’re not alone.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.

When I was a child, there’s one thing I said: ‚I never want to be alone.‘ That’s what I would say. I don’t want to be alone.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

You don’t want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That’s what I’m missing right now.

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one’s youth back again?

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

To be social is to be forgiving.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

It’s not possible to stop love.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.